Tech talks
Best Tech Talks 2021, Ranked by Hacker News
First recommended on Hacker News in 2021, still worth watching: these 65 tech talks and lectures earned 221 recommendations across the years.
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2 mo on HNQuantum Expert Insight: Peter Shor
Qiskit
Recommended 2× on HN · 2021–2024
2 mo on HNAgile Project Management with Kanban | Eric Brechner | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
Recommended 2× on HN · 2021–2026
2 mo on HN1. Introduction for 15.S12 Blockchain and Money, Fall 2018
MIT OpenCourseWare
Recommended 2× on HN · 2021–2022
2 mo on HNRopecon 2019: Essi Santala, Sampo Juustila: Odysseus – Where Code Meets Light and Sound
Ropecon
Recommended 2× on HN · 2021–2026
2 mo on HNAbseil's Open Source Hashtables: 2 Years In - Matt Kulukundis - CppCon 2019
CppCon
Recommended 1× on HN · 2021–2026
2 mo on HNC++Now 2018: You Can Do Better than std::unordered_map: New Improvements to Hash Table Performance
CppNow
Recommended 2× on HN · 2021–2024
2 mo on HNThe Forgotten Art of Structured Programming - Kevlin Henney [C++ on Sea 2019]
cpponsea
Recommended 2× on HN · 2021–2022
2 mo on HNReact Helsinki February 2020
Fraktio
Recommended 2× on HN · 2021–2025
2 mo on HNIntroducing Nx - José Valim | Lambda Days 2021
Code Sync
Recommended 2× on HN · 2021–2021
2 mo on HNCppCon 2019: Matt Godbolt “Compiler Explorer: Behind The Scenes”
CppCon
Recommended 2× on HN · 2021–2025
2 mo on HNPlenary: Performance Matters - Emery Berger - CppCon 2020
CppCon
Recommended 2× on HN · 2021–2022
2 mo on HNElixirConf 2021 - Isaac Yonemoto - Zig (heart) Elixir
ElixirConf
Recommended 2× on HN · 2021–2025
2 mo on HN2021: Year of the Linux Gaming Desktop - Andrew Kelley
Zig SHOWTIME
Recommended 2× on HN · 2021–2024
2 mo on HNJaron Lanier – Who is Civilization for? (+ Q&A with Ulrich Kelber) Willy Brandt Lecture 2018
Bundeskanzler-Willy-Brandt-Stiftung
Recommended 2× on HN · 2021–2024
2 mo on HNJonathan Diegelman - Modeling Spacecraft Separation Dynamics in Julia
The Julia Programming Language
Recommended 2× on HN · 2021–2023
2 mo on HNHandmadeCon 2016 - History of Software Texture Mapping in Games
Molly Rocket
Recommended 2× on HN · 2021–2022
2 mo on HNJune 2021 FreeBSD Developer Summit: Raid-Z Expansion
FreeBSD
Recommended 2× on HN · 2021–2023
1 mo on HNThe mathematics of love | Hannah Fry
TED
Recommended 1× on HN · 2021–2026
1 mo on HNSpeakeasy JS - Redbean: Actually Portable Executable Web Server (Justine Tunney)
Feross
Recommended 1× on HN · 2021–2023
1 mo on HNWhere Does Bad Code Come From?
Molly Rocket
Recommended 1× on HN · 2021–2023
1 mo on HNChris Crawford Dragon Speech "I Had a Dream"
Chris Crawford
Recommended 1× on HN · 2021–2025
1 mo on HNAndrej Karpathy (Tesla): CVPR 2021 (see description for better quality version)
YarrowFlower
Recommended 1× on HN · 2021–2022
1 mo on HNSymbolicsTalk28June2012
Mike Lambert
Recommended 1× on HN · 2021–2024
1 mo on HNAWS re:Invent 2014 | (SPOT302) Under the Covers of AWS: Its Core Distributed Systems
Amazon Web Services
Recommended 1× on HN · 2021–2025
1 mo on HNKilling the Walk Monster
Molly Rocket
Recommended 1× on HN · 2021–2025
1 mo on HNAWS re:Invent 2020: Working backwards: Amazon’s approach to innovation
AWS Events
Recommended 1× on HN · 2021–2024
1 mo on HNPeter Munch-Ellingsen: Why I wrote my own keyboard firmware in Nim (NimConf 2021)
Nim Programming Language
Recommended 1× on HN · 2021–2024
1 mo on HNPrioritizing Technical Debt as if Time & Money Matters • Adam Tornhill • GOTO 2019
GOTO Conferences
Recommended 1× on HN · 2021–2022
1 mo on HNDavid Patterson - A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture: History, Challenges and Opportunities
UBC Computer Science
Recommended 1× on HN · 2021–2023